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title: Even Brian of the Tributes himself, could not have commanded such a… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Even Brian of the Tributes himself, could not have commanded such a sepulture, or anything like it, living though he did, probably, two thousand years later than that Eocaidh Mac Elathan, whenever he did live. Who acts: Brian, tomb. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Gra
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 122

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Even Brian of the Tributes himself, could not have commanded such a sepulture, or anything like it, living though he did, probably, two thousand years later than that Eocaidh Mac Elathan, whenever he did live.

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**Who acts:** Brian, tomb · **What happens:** not command, live, do · **To what, where:** sepulture · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brian, tomb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8109:10:122
# text = Even Brian of the Tributes himself, could not have commanded such a sepulture, or anything like it, living though he did, probably, two thousand years later than that Eocaidh Mac Elathan, whenever he did live.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Brian	Brian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tributes	Tribute	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sepulture	sepulture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
26	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
34	Eocaidh	Eocaidh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Elathan	Elathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **command** | could · perfect | Brian and the Tributes  tomb | such sepulture |  |  |  | anything like sepulture *obl* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent sepulture=Eventuality |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | Brian and the Tributes  tomb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | tomb |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **live** | past · do-support | tomb |  |  |  |  | than that Mac Elathan; late, probably, whenever *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Project Gutenberg book 8109 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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